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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
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- Chat (190)8.888%
- Discussions (177)8.585%
- Notifications (189)8.080%
- Mobile Access (174)7.979%
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Microsoft Teams features three tiers of pricing. The first is a subscription-less, free option that offers the same features as the other two tiers but does not offer administration tools like analytics and access to on-premise servers, or support features like 24/7 phone and web support. The second and third tiers are based on the size of your business and its conferencing needs. Its “Office 365 Business Premium” option starts at $12.50 a month per user, with a required annual commitment, and its “Office 365 E3” option for enterprises starts at $20 a month per user, also with a required annual commitment.
Key Features
Meetings: Meet with teams of 10 or 10,000. Host audio, video, and web
conferences with anyone inside or outside your organization or go big with live
events.
Calling: Its Phone System feature enables PBX capabilities including
call control in Office 365 and replaces on-premises PBX. Its calling features
are customizable to fit your organization’s unique needs.
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Microsoft Teams Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Microsoft Teams starts at $5.
Reviewers rate Chat and Integrates with Outlook highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Microsoft Teams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 03, 2022
Microsoft Teams - Awesome product
In the corporate world, in the light of pandemic we needed an application that would help in streamlining work, allow sharing of files on chats and also allow efficient management of work with clients presentation. Earlier we used skype but it did not have all these features but Teams was a perfect choice. It was multiple apps in one and with a very easy UI it allowed us to transition easily
- Screen sharing
- Team meetings
- Proper event planning
- Client presentation
- Client calls
- Meeting
January 20, 2022
This is the best collaborative tool that allows you to stay connected and work closely with your team
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams was used on a daily basis to stay connected, especially during the pandemic but not only that. It is a highly collaborative tool to help create synergy between our own data science team, but also with all the other teams that support us in our daily work or per project. What we love about this tool is its own ease, convenience, and how fun it is to use. Also, all the other integration aspects with Office 365 and OneDrive help improve our efficiency. It was possible to feel and work as if we were working next to each other. Obviously, it will never replace a real in-person meeting, but the quality of the image and sound make this tool one of the best to stay connected in any condition. The fact that the tool has an app is fantastic to be able to respond and message anyone quickly, even taking calls or meetings while away from your computer. I never really had any complaints from my team or experienced any problems with the tools, except for some control function that was not implemented at the beginning, like the spotlight that could be used by anyone or the fact that the organizer of the meeting could lose control.
- Stay connected with your teams
- Document sharing functionality
- History of the chat and search function
- Small teams that could be created per project
- The control functionality could still be improved when you organize a big meeting.
- The mute function could be improved because sometimes, you just don't want to be interrupted during a presentation or work in progress.
- The status is sometimes not working properly; you can stay available all night or away even if you are not.
January 18, 2022
Microsoft Teams - A MUST FOR ANY OFFICE!!!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Microsoft Teams for setting up virtual team meetings. Microsoft teams allow my work team to meet virtually and share each other screens to walk through processes and train or show how to execute a particular task. Microsoft Teams also allows for uploading files for the team to access whenever needed versus having to email a file each time.
- Microsoft Teams allows for setting up a virtual meetings very easy.
- Microsoft Teams allows for sharing team members screens to walk through processes seamless. The team members are able to see it visually which is very helpful.
- Microsoft Teams allows for files to be store for easy access by team mates. This helps reduce the need to email files back and forth between colleagues.
- Sometimes gaining access into a meeting can be confusing, whether to select enter meeting via Web or Teams.
- Microsoft Teams do not work well on certain web browser which can cause meeting entry delays.
- When using the share screen feature, the person sharing the screens is never certain that everyone can see them sharing. Maybe adding an indicator that the person is now in screen sharing mode may be helpful.
January 17, 2022
Great collab tool, better than Zoom
Use it for hosting meetings and working remotely, to share screens and presentations.
- Sharing presentations.
- Contacting colleagues and suppliers formally.
- Informal discussion on chat and a record of conversation.
- Better at sharing content e.g. video and audio often not the best quality.
- Collaboration tools are not well integrated, functionality is limited and simple commands could be improved.
- Make it easier to transfer or share ownership of a meeting to change the timing, etc.
January 11, 2022
From the users perspective Microsoft Teams satisfies the needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft teams to stay in contact with external clients. The client [sends] us a link, we paste that link in Google Calendar, and that way we're able to access the meeting from our main time management program. We've always had a pleasant experience through the web browser application as we do not have to install anything.
- Stable connection
- Easy to use
- No installation
- Accessible
- Well known
- Audio & Video input management.
- Audio & Video output management.
- Refresh the UI, make it more modern looking.
December 31, 2021
Problems
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This program is always having some issues like he is my dad. The attachment button is despairing, not only to me but to the others who use this app. This app is always having some problem with login in, he keeps login out from the phone, there is always an issue to open pictures, and NO the internet is not the problem!
- nothing
- nothing
- nothing
- everywhere
- everywhere
- everywhere
December 30, 2021
Make work more fun and interacting .
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams for inter and intra team communication to track progress of project work and also we host some fun activities within Teams. We connect either on audio call, or video call with another colleague one to one to describe any challenges, scope and idea about the Project.
- Message chat
- Audio, video call
- Screen Sharing while call
- File sharing
- White board for drawing activities
- Emoji's to express thoughts
- Townhall meetings
- Audio calling quality
- Video calling quality
- Screen lag while screen sharing
December 20, 2021
Teams - Not a perfect solution, but still the best choice going!
We used MS Teams for all of our team meetings as well as organizational meetings. We used MS Teams for communication and training. We found Teams to be an excellent way to stay on track with individual and group projects. It was also a reliable means of checking in with team members and supervisors. All of MS Teams' features were used in our professional development sessions as well.
- Facilitates intra- and inter-team communication.
- Provides an easy-to-use feature for documenting meetings and proceedings
- Provides an excellent chat feature for off-line and sidebar communication
- Enables users to share their screens easily with other participants
- Provides a format for document storage, meeting minutes, etc.
- Hierarchy of files are a bit confusing to users.
- Adding participants outside of an organization can be challenging.
- Requires very stable Internet connection.
December 16, 2021
Microsoft Teams needs a serious UI/UX overhaul, and for now there are better options out there
Microsoft Teams is being used by various departments throughout our organization to coordinate team work and specific projects. We use it as a central repository for documents related to a team or project. We also sometimes use the discussion feature to communicate within our teams. Occasionally some of our teams will conduct Teams Meetings in lieu of Skype or WebEx meetings. Not everyone in the organization uses it, and some departments use it much more heavily than others.
- It allows all of the documents for a project to be stored on the cloud and updated in real time, instead of on a network drive where changes are more difficult to track.
- It allows teams to keep their communication and project files centralized, instead of in disparate places.
- Navigation within a document set is clunky. For example, clicking "back" never takes you back to the previous screen or one level up, like you'd expect. It takes you back to the main document set. This causes clicking in circles if you are trying to edit multiple documents in a folder.
- Moving documents from one place to another is also clunky and not intuitive. You cannot move an entire folder, but only a single document at a time. This wastes time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams for day to day video calling and sharing of meetings. We use this as a quick chat for any important information between the factory and the office. [A]lso importan information is shared via the teams chat, and weekly meetings are also now held on teams.
- Great video chat
- Smooth chat service
- ability to link with Microsoft Apps
- Linking calendars
- Use of non Microsoft Apps with it
- Video call quality needs to improve
December 01, 2021
Perfect solution for all office needs
Teams offers secure collaboration, both internally and externally. Greater data visibility and better governanceTeams has powerful Microsoft Office integration options. Comprehensive third-party integrations Powerful audio and video calling options Support for education, healthcare, and emergency services Bots and other tools for many needs Communicate with my clients ON and OFF shore. Launch quick meetings. Updates to this happen when the MS OFFICE package is updated.
- MS Teams is very handy and easy.
- Screen sharing feature is there for presentations.
- Screen blur problem when internet connection is slow.
- Sometimes it does not remind me of meetings. I hope it gets fixed as soon as possible in the future.
December 01, 2021
Microsoft Team made life fun during remote working
Great collaboration team. Helps the team to effectively communicate and be connected wherever you are. All the meetings were organized using Microsoft Teams and the setup, engagement was really fun and productive
- Creating team groups
- Calling feature
- Scheduling a meeting from chat
- No break out rooms
- Virtual Backgrounds are limited
- Not easy to access from mobile
November 30, 2021
Microsoft Teams has come a long way and really adds value to our work communication
Microsoft Teams is used in my organization for the following purposes: Instant messenger - multiple groups or direct 1:1. File & text sharing. Video conferencing integration with other systems such as Jira - We don't use them primarily due to company restrictions, but they are there and I've asked for a few that would have benefited us. Additionally, I have used it for video interviews. It provides are very good overall user experience that remains pretty consistent for desktop, web, and mobile applications.
- Audio calls - the quality is VERY good even when there are drops in the video quality and when interacting with multiple locations around the world.
- Rich text editing - although slightly hidden, it's really good.
- Integrations with other systems - there are a lot of them. Can contribute to a seamless work experience.
- Screen sharing with shared control - works really well overall. Remote/shared control does not work with applications that run with "elevated permissions" on Windows.
- Updates come without notice and we find out about features by chance or through experimentation. Feature rollout for the mobile applications seems to be further ahead than the rollout for desktop and web. This could be because of our organization's approach to managing Teams though.
- Mandatory Rich text copy-paste by default. Although it works great in a lot of cases, I'd like to see a "paste as plain text" option as it will make my life much easier when the formatting of the pasted text looks horrible in Teams.
- Fluctuating performance and random crashes. This can be infuriating during a hectic communications-heavy workday. Overall, this is an Electron-based app on desktop and eats a lot of memory.
- There's a CPU usage spike for the person who starts sharing his/her camera - sometimes this spike can cause other apps or even the entire OS to crash.
- There are two major tabs - "Chat" and "Teams". Around 90% of my colleagues want to use only one tab and thus ignore all the established channels in the "Teams" tab/section. Instead, they resolve to named (sometimes long-running) ad-hoc chats.
- Searching for an old message in the history yields somewhat random results so it's better to stick to recent communication.
November 27, 2021
Best meeting app for any organization that values productivity
Microsoft Teams is our go-to meeting app. Easy scheduling, collaboration, and advanced features like recording, whiteboarding, etc. make our meetings more interactive and productive. Screen sharing is one feature [that] is much more convenient than any other apps currently in the market. Large audience support is another reason we prefer Teams. Our field force size is 150 plus. The most convenient thing is it is easier for guests to add other participants and teams have an extended waiting rooms feature which is convenient for interviewing.
- Better screen and content sharing support than others, especially if you want to share audio.
- Multiple rooms for waiting so better for interviewing candidates
- More effective for managing very large audience
- Better integration with MS Office and outlook
- The meeting link is confusing and most of the time audiences, press the wrong link. we have to troubleshoot this in every meeting
November 25, 2021
Microsoft Teams Improves Communication and Helps Build Teams that Enhance Productivity
Microsoft Teams is a great tool for keeping teams connected. It has a great chat feature that allows for instantly messaging colleagues. Microsoft Teams also has the ability to have team meetings with or without video to keep teams connected and on the same page. It can be used to coordinate meetings both internally and with outside consultants and vendors. When you also incorporate the mobile app in addition to the desktop version, Microsoft teams is even more flexible. It is a great tool.
- Allows you to set up teams for specific projects as well as a team for the entire department to keep everyone in contact
- Great Help Section and training available through the app.
- Very good Chat feature
- Capability to host / coordinate Conference Calls
- Easy to use Team Meetings
- Calendar Feature to help keep track of your schedule.
- Video quality was unstable at times but may have been a reflection of connection speeds more than of the capabilities of Teams.
- Can be a memory hog and cause computer performance issues at times. Be sure you have plenty of RAM on your computer to avoid issues if you plan to keep Team open at all times.
- Need a more intuitive way to coordinate the Calendar function in Teams with external calendars so you don't have to coordinate between several different calendars.
November 24, 2021
Very fast and collaborative
It is a primary collaboration tool used in the company. All internal team meetings like daily stand ups , one on one meetings, , cross functional team meetings where multiple project team members collaborate , company level announcements and updates happens through teams. Apart from this, we also use Microsoft Teams for client meetings.
- Categorization of internal team meetings vs individual chats and company communicator
- Quick calling and instant connect
- Sync details from other MS apps like outlook meetings, Designation updates from Yammer or delve, contact information from AD
- Whiteboards are missing
- Synchronization of mobile app and desktop app can be improved
- Ease to invite other people to an ongoing meeting
November 24, 2021
[Microsoft Teams] Love Letter!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Since the pandemic, our business [has] changed [from] work [in] office to work from home setup. Communication has been a bit of a challenge, especially since it's our first to experience it. But, because of Microsoft Teams, communication within the account has been very smooth as if we're just beside each other. Awesome experience by far!
- Manage my schedule through calendars, linked to invites
- Communicate very well with colleagues through chat and video calls
- HD quality calls and videos
- Maybe add emojis for when we have meetings that will be more fun
- Search should be more specific, maybe add filters
- Add more fun features in [Microsoft] Teams
November 24, 2021
Teams is convenient for WFH
Our internal teams communicate with each other, upload and store documents on the Team Channels and Files, set up and join meetings through Teams, and also communicate during the meetings through those Teams chat rooms. Most importantly is the communication and the storage aspect - we are able to communicate immediately and daily, note important chat messages(even save them), and can reach anyone in the company quickly. Storage-wise - we seem to be always running out of room - but ever since we're working from home, we've been using Teams to store all our project files and not our VPN connection because it's simply much faster.
- Meetings.
- Daily and speedy communication.
- File Storage.
- Comfortable UX/UI.
- File Storage is a little clunky for new users, there was a learning curve in understanding the difference between Channels, Teams, Files, and where to communicate. The UI could be improved.
- The connection of the file storage with Sharepoint gets tricky, where if we edit a certain file in one location, either it sometimes mirrors the action on the other platform, but sometimes it doesn't. It created a lot of issues.
November 23, 2021
A Savage Tool - Microsoft Teams!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Microsoft Teams regularly for my office work. It really makes interaction super easy and convenient. It addresses [a] lot of business problems- a) Communication is smoother and [easier] b) Feature of putting fancy background is amazing c) Feature of forming several breakouts within a call is something I really like.
- Background availability while having video conferencing
- Feature of breakouts
- Recording feature
- Some new features may come up in the direction of long term vision of virtual reality.
- Right now only one person can present [on] the screen. A feature may come which can allow multiple users (at least 2) to present their screens simultaneously.
November 17, 2021
Teams, the way communication should happen.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At the City of New Braunfels we [use] Microsoft 365 with Teams. Teams is used by everyone at the City of New Braunfels. Teams address the need for communication through one on one or team messaging. Teams also leverages most of the Microsoft 365 applications. When you create a new Team it in turn will create a sharepoint site for that team. It also has the ability to mail enable the team and use it [as] a distribution list.
- Communication between individuals and teams with in departments
- Collaboration utilizing Microsoft 365 applications
- Video conferencing with screen sharing
- Management configuration
- Adding and removing members from the admin console can be cumbersome
November 17, 2021
My review on Microsoft Teams app
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Whole organization using "Microsoft Teams" to communicate each other. From day starting time to ending time it needed. It's very helpful to all employees in Organization. For example if we want to talk with any other employee we can do calls in teams, we can arrange meetings and videos calls also through teams. Not only in our organization, in all Organizations using this teams app to communicate. I didn't face any issues with teams up to now. Really thank you so much Microsoft Teams.
- We use teams for calls.
- We use teams for meetings.
- We can create groups in teams, all are very helpful .
- If we need camera turn on in meetings also we can do, really helpful.
- I didn't see any missing functionality till now.
- It's very good app.
- It's very useful to all employees in Organization.
- Everyday starts with Microsoft Teams in Organization.
November 14, 2021
Good For Internal Collaboration
Primary internal meeting and scheduling tool. Externally we use other products. Worlds great internally but prefer other tools for recording.
- Quick scheduling
- See team availability
- Chat function works well
- Recording should be Picture in Picture
- Back navigation can be improved
- Should be able to more easily schedule 15 min increment meetingss
November 13, 2021
Help your business boost teamwork across chat, collaboration, and online meeting features
Microsoft Teams is being used across our organization for 1:1 messaging, group internal chat, and for sharing important files. Microsoft Teams helps us eliminate unnecessary emails to internal colleagues. The functionality of the product is simple and effective. We also use Microsoft Teams to host web meetings from time to time.
- Internal communication.
- Document sharing.
- Online meeting hosting.
- Microsoft Teams syncs with other tools we use to run our business.
- The web conferencing tool isn't as robust or user friendly as Zoom.
- The search functionality of the product could be better.
November 12, 2021
Teams is good communications and video conference tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have Teamed as part of Microsoft Office 365 suite, we have been using it since Microsoft added it to our Office 365 subscription, about two years ago. Teams [are] being used company-wide at our organization, and it's been a useful communication tool, I think Microsoft added it [at] the right time when we were in the middle of the covid pandemic where many people were working from home. We have switched our meetings and communications from Skype to Teams as Teams were much easier to use and have more collaboration features than Skype.
- Online meeting is easier to setup and join, and video conference is better in quality.
- Teams have channels [that] divide the groups and each group communicates and shares on their group, this is a more organized way to communicate.
- Teams integrates well with the rest of office 365 tools, such as One-Drive
- In my experience, the most annoying thing in Teams is when you want to set up your audio input and output before the conference calls, especially if you have more than one audio option, such as external speakers and a headset.
- As an administrator, I see that Teams have good security policies, but these policies bring some complexity, for instance, if one user in our company needs to share some resources with [another] party outside our domain, he can not do so, until the admin allows it.
- Teams integrate well in the Microsoft environment, but outside of that, you would find that you have limited usage.
November 09, 2021
Build a team with Microsoft Teams
Since our setup is work from home, Microsoft Teams has been our way of communicating with each other. From coaching to meetings, to huddles, and even with interviews. It's our company's trusted partner to convey our messages and important info within our organization. So far, we've been very optimistic in using Microsoft teams and not planning to switch to any other tools.
- recording and saving important meetings
- help me organize my schedule with calendar
- conveying messages to each other
- maybe an added alert if a meeting is scheduled
- additional react emoticons will be great
- real time update of the tool